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Metallic Glass Gears Up for ‘Cobots,’ Coatings, and More
Bulk metallic glass could slash prices of collaborative robots and lead to advanced 3D printed metals.
Where are the robot assistants we were promised?
For all the space that robots have occupied in the popular imagination for the last hundred years – and although the…
Uncontrolled firing from Russian module causes brief ‘tug of war’ on International Space Station
July 29, 2021
The International Space Station unexpectedly shifted in orbit on Thursday when thrusters on a newly docked Russian module began firing uncontrollably. The thrusters reoriented the football-field-sized laboratory’s position by as much as 45 degrees, NASA said. The station…
Clays, Not Water, Are Likely Source of Mars ‘Lakes’
July 29, 2021
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Clays, Not Water, Are Likely Source of Mars ‘Lakes’
Three studies published in the past month have cast doubt on the premise of subsurface lakes below the Martian south pole.
Where there’s water, there’s life. That’s…
The Federal Communications Commission told SpaceX and other companies on Monday that the billions in rural broadband subsidies it doled out last year can’t be used in already connected areas like “parking lots and well-served urban areas,” citing complaints. The commission, in an effort to “clean up” its subsidy auction program, offered the companies a chance to rescind their funding…
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Index Ranks Rainforests’ Vulnerability to Climate and Human Impacts
A new index shows that the world’s rainforests are responding differently to threats like a warming climate and deforestation.
Scientists from NASA’s Jet…
Jeff Bezos offers NASA $2 billion to pick Blue Origin’s lunar lander in last-minute plea
July 26, 2021
Jeff Bezos is offering NASA a discount of at least $2 billion for the agency to give his space company a lucrative human lunar landing system contract that his rival, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, won earlier this year. Bezos’ new offer is the latest in an escalating string of…
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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for the Europa Clipper Mission
The mission will explore whether Jupiter’s moon Europa has conditions suitable for life.
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for Earth’s first mission to conduct detailed investigations of…
NASA’s Europa Clipper will start its journey to Jupiter’s icy moon aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket built by SpaceX. NASA will pay SpaceX $178 million to launch the vehicle in October 2024.
The Europa Clipper got the green light from NASA in 2015. It will fly by the moon 45…
Hubble, which just came back online after being down for a month, has captured this stunning photo of a galaxy that exists a staggering 10 billion light-years away. The telescope can see and focus this vast distance by leveraging the power of gravity.
This photo of…
NASA’s InSight Reveals the Deep Interior of Mars
July 23, 2021
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NASA’s InSight Reveals the Deep Interior of Mars
Three papers published today share new details on the crust, mantle, and molten core of the Red Planet.
Before NASA’s InSight spacecraft touched down on Mars in 2018, the rovers and orbiters studying the Red Planet concentrated on its surface. The stationary lander’s seismometer has changed that…
